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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far as to dip your hands in some water. Did Napoleon know something we didn’t when he wrote Josephine “I will return in five days. Stop washing”? And why is the German term Warmduscher—a man who washes in warm or hot water—invariably a slight against his masculinity? Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in Clean, her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, Clean considers the bizarre prescriptions of history’sdoctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized. .
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The Japanese Bath
In the West, a bath is a place one goes to cleanse the body. In Japan, one goes there to cleanse the soul. Bathing in Japan is about much more than cleanliness: it is about family and community It is about being alone and contemplative, time to watch the moon rise above the garden.< BR> Along with sixty full-color illustrations of the light and airy baths themselves, The Japanese Bath, delves into the aesthetic of bathing Japanese style and the innate beauty of the steps surrounding the process. The authors explain how to create a Japanese bath in your own home. A Zen meditation, the Japanese bath, indeed, cleanses the soul, and one emerges refreshed, renewed, and serene.< BR>.
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Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals and Traditions from Around the World
Since ancient times, people have engaged in spiritual bathing—a soothing and restorative practice that rejuvenates the body, mind, and soul. Spiritual baths promote health and have been proven to aid in the treatment of anxiety, grief, insomnia, and depression. In SPIRITUAL BATHING, best-selling authors Rosita Arvigo and Nadine Epstein explore this lost art and its fascinating history, with information on where sacred baths are currently offered and easy recipes to create bathing rituals in your home. Derived from various regions and philosophies—Shinto, Buddhist, Wiccan, Mayan, and others—most of these baths require only water, a simple ritual, accessible plants and herbs, and the desire to nurture your spirit. Rich with luxurious rituals as well as simple, practical remedies, SPIRITUAL BATHING will help you discover a sense of balance, vitality, and pleasure in your daily routine..
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Bathtime (Touch and Feel)
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Bathing Without a Battle: Person-Directed Care of Individuals with Dementia, Second Edition (Springer Series on Geriatric Nursing)
Like its popular predecessor, the new edition of Bathing Without a Battle presents an individualized, problem-solving approach to bathing and personal care of individuals with dementia. On the basis of extensive original research and clinical experience, the editors have developed strategies and techniques that work in both institution and home settings. Their approach is also appropriate for caregiving activities other than bathing, such as morning and evening care, and for frail elders not suffering from dementia.
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Botanica Erotica: Arousing Body, Mind, and Spirit
A playful and provocative guide to the foods, herbs, and behaviors that arouse us
• Provides a practical guide to the history and use of the world's classic aphrodisiacs
• Presents easy recipes for food, lotions, and potions designed to please the senses, and includes chapters on erotic massage, touch, and belly dance
• Lavishly illustrated with contemporary and classical artwork
Botanica Erotica provides readers with the tools and techniques they need for a lifelong exploration of pleasure. More than a simple list of aphrodisiacs, Botanica Erotica offers suggestions to arouse all the senses and to make every aspect of life an encounter with Eros.
Beginning with a practical guide to the history and use of the world's classic aphrodisiacs, Diana De Luca moves on to present a feast of "Libidinous Libations" and "Voluptuous Vittles" that are easy to make and outrageous to eat, designed to please the palate and get the juices flowing. "The Lascivious Lavage" helps you create the perfect lotions and potions for romantic baths, and later chapters reveal how to stimulate the physical body through erotic massage, touch, and belly dance. This celebration of pleasure is ideal for anyone who loves to live a fully embodied life. .
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Naughty Victorians & Edwardians: Early Images Of Bathing Beauties
Most are modest, some dare smoke and strike suggestive poses. Others go so far as to expose an inch of flesh as they coyly wring seawater from their swim dresses Enjoy over 100 hand-tinted postcards taken during an era when women may have been clothed from head to toe, but they were women nonetheless Dressed in the latest beach fashions, bold Victorians flirt with the camera, creating charming and beguiling images...
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The Bathing Suit Workout
"You can achieve a bathing suit body in thirty workout hours!" claims author Joyce Vedral. These workout hours are broken up into 10- or 15-minute sessions, done every day or every other day. Although Vedral doesn't calculate the math, this comes to 120 to 180 workout sessions, which may take a year at 10 minutes every other day. Vedral says that you can get your bathing suit body "in record time" because "you'll be concentrating only on the problem areas." This is problematic, because spot reducing does not work, and exercise professionals have known this for years. Though Vedral insists that you're "zapping" fat, you can't burn fat from specific areas. But this book's program will work--the catch is that you follow her low-fat "bulge-busting diet" (15 percent fat, 15 percent protein, 70 percent carbohydrates), and do three to six 20- to 40-minute aerobic sessions a week, in addition. So much for the claim on the cover: "10 minutes a day to a flat stomach, trim thighs, flab-free hips and the firmest butt you ever had." If you get past your annoyance at being misled, the book presents a good exercise program and sound nutritional advice. The "tri-set" is three complementary muscle groups (hips/buttocks, thighs, and abdominals) exercised in sequence without stopping. Then, after a 15-second rest, you do another tri-set, and so on until you've done seven. If you're a woman or iron, steel, or titanium, Vedral offers more advanced levels by adding additional sets of new exercises for the same body parts. Weights are used optionally for the thigh exercises only. The illustrations are clear and show both beginning and ending positions of each exercise. --Joan Price.
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Bathing Spaces: Designs for Pampering Body and Soul
For centuries, baths have been regarded as havens for rest and relaxation. From huge Roman ruins looming over hot springs to small wooden saunas dotting Finland's landscape to Japan's outdoor wooden soaking pools, baths, saunas, and spas have proven medicinal and spiritual value. Bathing Spaces celebrates the lasting traditions of the bath and beckons modern bathing areas to come out of their hidden spaces, since cutting-edge design is creating a "bathroom too chic to languish behind locked doors." Encouraging you to draw the bath and let it spill into larger areas, Bathing Spaces displays bathrooms as "second living rooms" where you no longer hop in the shower but rather lounge, meditate, and even exercise. Offering new ideas for creating the perfect spacious retreat away from the bustling world, lighting, faucets, tubs, tiles, and layouts are all explored. Bathing Spaces does not confine all of its designs to four walls but dares to venture outside. Outdoor baths, rooftop showers, and large windows in front of the bath incorporate nature into the bathing experience. Straying from the elements of design, the ancient tradition of the scented bath is also explored as well as the daunting task of cleaning the bathroom. With lush full-color photos and running narrative from Ali Hanan, Bathing Spaces will inspire you to transform your bathing area into a room that will pamper you body as well as your soul. --Jenny Burritt.
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